Saturday, 25 January 2014

It started off as a lovely day this morning and I managed to wash down the front cratch canopy with a mild solution of Milton steriliser to remove the green algae; it seems to have worked well. I left it a couple of hours to dry in the warm sunshine before spraying it with waterproofer and hoped that it would dry quickly as the sky was starting to cloud over.

It was about 15 minutes later that it started to rain, just a bit to start with and then heavens opened ... just as I’m writing this post! The lights are on inside and the wind, hail and rain is making a hell of a din on the roof and now its thunder and lightening! The weather tomorrow is rain, rain, rain ... I’m so glad that we’ve nowhere to go!

Tuesday, 21 January 2014

... away from Still Rockin’ ... life continues back on board Rock ’n’ Roll ...

... the cassette toilet is in and varnished. The fit has not allowed for a door so Stuart has made a sliding hatch that works perfectly.

Mark and Becky on the next pontoon had spoken to us about ‘George’ who visits for bread, and for the past few days these two have been visiting us so we’ve named them George and Mildred. If we’re not in the galley they’ll walk up and down the pontoon looking for us in each window and giving us a knock - cheeky beggars!

As in lots of areas throughout the UK it was beautiful here in Droitwich on Sunday and whilst George was busy I took Molly for a walk along the canal towards the town.

This is lock 7 and to the right of the picture is the weir which flows into the River Salwarpe and at the bottom of this lock the canal joins the river which was unnavigable as the level was well into the red board. You may just be able to see the bridge beyond the lock under which it was flooded to about 12” - time to turn back me thinks.

Sunday, 5 January 2014

... and went to Grindley Brook to visit Margaret and Geoff.
The weather wasn’t as bad as forecast and we had a lovely time catching up with each other’s news and enjoying good company and food as usual. Sorry I forgot my camera but I’m sure Geoff won’t mind me pinching his picture taken just as we were leaving to travel back to Droitwich!